All news on the topic: Covid-19

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Mone and Barrowman sued as government fights to recover £122m PPE Medpro losses
Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman are among individuals being sued in an attempt to recover some of the millions owed to the government by his collapsed company, PPE Medpro.
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Ex-minister Ábalos jailed for 24 years in Spain’s Covid “Masks case” corruption scandal
Former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos received the harshest sentence ever handed down to a modern Spanish minister after being convicted of running a criminal network that pocketed millions from emergency Covid-19 contracts.
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Iran war sparks global supply strain as trade tensions risk repeating Covid-style protectionism
The war in Iran has strained the availability of energy, food, and fertilizer, raising the question of whether the world’s response will repeat the early missteps of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Farage under pressure as party candidates accused of spreading deadly Covid misinformation
Families who lost loved ones in the Covid pandemic have written to Nigel Farage, after a Byline Times‘ investigation revealed that one of the party’s local election candidates branded the coronavirus crisis a “staged event”.
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Farage’s Reform candidate under fire for Covid misinformation and claims the Queen was a “fraud”
One of Nigel Farage’s Reform candidates promoted a Covid conspiracy theory – and even labeled the late Queen a “fraud” who should be overthrown.
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Leaked Fox News texts reveal hosts privately rejected Trump’s 2020 claims
Leaked text messages from some of Fox News’ biggest personalities reveal how many of them really felt about Donald Trump after the president lost his first bid for reelection in 2020.
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Nadine Dorries rejects accusations of sexism in Johnson’s No.10, highlights pandemic leadership
Ally of Boris Johnson, Nadine Dorries, has dismissed claims that the former Prime Minister was sexist and ignored women, stating that he was "at his best" during the pandemic.
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Boris Johnson’s leadership failures during Covid may have led to 23,000 deaths
Boris Johnson oversaw a ’toxic and chaotic culture’ in government during the Covid pandemic, which prevented good decision-making, the public inquiry has concluded.
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Uniserve named in high court ruling over faulty PPE amid £1.4bn in Covid contracts
Special report: Uniserve was paid £1.4bn for Covid contracts that included the supply of £178.5m in never-used equipment
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Truck carrying lab monkeys feared to have deadly viruses crashes in Mississippi
A truck carrying monkeys feared to be carrying hepatitis C, herpes, and Covid-19 has overturned in Mississippi.
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Johnson tells Covid inquiry he was “in a thoroughly homicidal mood” over school exams chaos
Former prime minister Boris Johnson was left in a "thoroughly homicidal mood" by his own Conservative government’s handling of school exams during the Covid pandemic.
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Starmer pledges to claw back millions from Baroness Mone’s Covid PPE scandal
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to recover more than £100m of taxpayer money from a company linked to Baroness Mone over a Covid medical supplies scandal.
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Michelle Mone-linked company fails to pay £122m for unusable Covid PPE
A firm associated with former Conservative peer Michelle Mone has yet to pay the government any of the £122m required by a High Court ruling for supplying unusable personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic.
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New Covid strains circulating in the UK this autumn: XFG and NB.1.8.1 variants not more dangerous
If you feel unwell with a sore throat and a fever, you may have caught one of the new strains of Covid circulating this autumn.
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YouTube to start bringing back creators banned for COVID-19 and election misinformation
YouTube will offer creators a way to return to the streaming platform if they were banned for violating COVID-19 and election misinformation policies that are no longer in effect, its parent company Alphabet said Tuesday.
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UK spent billions on PPE during Covid-19, much of it wasted
In the initial months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK was severely underprepared.